| Joe, joseph.smith(@)metmuseum.org, 28.10.2008 This is one of the 3 USA 1920 entries into the Bennett Trophy Race held in France that year. It was the 1st aircraft with retractable landing gear that was not repeated until 10 years later in the Grumman FFs. The wing flaps and forward slats all worked together via a crank in the cockpit with the retractable landing gear a 1st not to be repeated until the 1950s on the F 104. The aircraft hangs in the Henry Ford Museum in Dayton, Ohio, USA. The plane did not finish the race because of a broken control cable. It had run a lap before the race doing 165mph without useing full throttle. |